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Three parents, £7,000 and 6,500 places: inside Kidora
A Flintshire mum built a children's resale marketplace after more than 50 failed Marketplace handovers. It now has two more parts, and still no outside money.
Doctor's hiring platform makes hospitals apply to nurses
Iman Abuzeid qualified as a doctor in London and never practised. Nine years after founding Incredible Health, she says an AI interviewer has cut hiring time by 30%.
Build or buy: TaskRabbit rebuilt, Midi Health refused
Two founders, two opposite infrastructure calls. Leah Solivan paid for a full platform rebuild at TaskRabbit. Joanna Strober decided Midi Health's best engineering decision was the one it never made.
Complaint says Amazon bid against its own advertisers for seven years
A federal complaint alleges Amazon put a hidden "soft reserve" into seller ad auctions, pushing prices up. The alleged cost to advertisers is more than $20bn.